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Interior Goodspeed Station, n.d. A view of the station agent’s room, ticket window and Tylerville Post Office from within the waiting room. In the center is the payphone with its kerosene lamp for light. The potbelly coal stove at right has a shield over its upper portion. This is the interior of the second Goodspeed Station that was opened for service in April 1897 after the first station was destroyed by fire on February 5, 1897. COURTESY CAMP BETHEL HISTORICAL CENTER, F. THOMAS BECKWITH COLLECTION.
HIGGANUM
Higganum station for both passenger and freight was on the west side of the tracks situated on the north side at the last curve on Depot Road. A 28-foot addition was added on the north end of the building in May 1881. This one-story building (page 27) was razed after it was badly damaged by fire on August 27, 1966.
MAROMAS
Maromas Station was a two-story building on the west side of the tracks located near the present Middletown jet engine plant of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. The second floor contained living space usually occupied by railroad employees.
Benvenue Station was a small one-story building on the east side of the tracks near the present electric generating plant at Maromas. It became Laurel Station on August 12, 1914 and was originally built to serve workers of the granite quarries nearby. In 1914 there were nine houses and a 60-room resort hotel in this area.
Higganum Station, June 17, 1929. This photo of the rear side of the station shows the roof in its original configuration. Most of the roof overhang had been removed by the time it was partially destroyed by fire on August 27, 1966. COLLECTION OF NEW HAVEN RAILROAD HISTORICAL & TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION, INC.
Higganum Station, 1966. The remains of the station after it was severely damaged by fire on August 27, 1966. It was razed shortly after this photo was taken. In the foreground are newly cut railroad ties that were being shipped from here by the J. Rossi Corp. PHOTO: F. WILLIAM ZAISER, COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR.
Maromas Station, August 1, 1916. This is a southwesterly view of the two-story railroad station. The section foreman was usually the tenant of the upstairs living quarters and often boarded some of the section men from his crew. COLLECTION OF C. В. MCCOID.
Laurel Station, August 9, 1916. The station was located on the east (riverside) side of the tracks near the present location of the Middletown electric generating plant. This is a south facing view. COURTESY ROBERT T. EASTWOOD, SR.
On Thursday March 23, 1871, the directors located the passenger and freight depot for Chester, known as Lords Farm. Chester subscribed to $17,500 in stock. Unfortunately, it was not as simple as that.
Right away, on Saturday, April 22, 1871, the directors called a meeting to deal with two additional station sites that had been petitioned by citizens in Chester and Haddam and so ordered by the General Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut. In Chester the additional station was to be, “immediately north of the highway [now Dock Road], leading to the Steamboat Landing in the Town of Chester.”4 This station was the original Chester Station. About eight months after the team located Lords Farm, at a meeting of the board of directors held on January 9, 1872, participants voted:
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